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  • The Most Magnificent Team (Most Magnificent #4)

The Most Magnificent Team
(Most Magnificent #4)

Author
Illustrator
Ashley Spires
Publication Date
May 06, 2025
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction /  2nd − 3rd
Language
English
Format
Picture Book
The Most Magnificent Team (Most Magnificent #4)

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Description

New for fans of the runaway bestseller The Most Magnificent Thing, a story about the ups and downs of working with others.

A girl and her dog are ready to make something. She gathers her supplies, and they head to her favorite workspace - only to discover that her neighbor, along with her cat, got there first! Hmm, well, maybe they could make something together? Magnificent idea! So the girl starts cutting, hammering and gluing, while her neighbor considers, measures and calculates. Her neighbor believes in always measuring twice and cutting once, but the girl thinks that takes way too long. Tensions start to rise as it becomes clear they have very different styles of working. And even different ideas about exactly what they're making! Can they ever work things out as a team?

Blending humor with empathy to strike just the right note, Ashley Spires perfectly captures the emotional ups and downs of working with others in this celebration of collaboration in the creative process. As the girl perseveres through technical and emotional challenges, she learns that mistakes don't mean failure and setbacks are just part of the route to success. This amusing and inspiring picture book is part of the Most Magnificent franchise that includes books, a TV series and an award-winning short film. The series is a favorite among educators because of its growth mindset focus, and this title highlights another important theme in the classroom: teamwork.

Publication date
May 06, 2025
Genre
Fiction
Page Count
40
ISBN-13
9781525312953
Lexile Measure
680
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Series
Most Magnificent
BISAC categories
JUV039060 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Friendship
JUV039050 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Emotions & Feelings
JUV051000 - Juvenile Fiction | Imagination & Play
JUV036020 - Juvenile Fiction | Technology | Inventions

School Library Journal

Gr 2-5– The Most Magnificent Team seems to sit perfectly alongside books like Andrea Beaty’s Rosie Revere, Engineer , with its clean illustrations and general themes of girls in STEM. But it adds a hefty dose of emotional regulation and conflict resolution to those already-worthy themes of engineering, as two neighbors meet, collaborate, and bicker over the proper way to create great things. They each approach a project with different ideas and have to learn to handle and adjust to other mindsets. It perfectly models appropriate behavior during extreme reactions, particularly as they take a breath and take space to figure out what they want from their project and their friendship. VERDICT An aspirational read that models how to handle potential conflict with grace and connection over anger and division.

Copyright 2025 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

Ashley Spires
Ashley Spires grew up in the Pacific Northwest, the supposed stomping grounds of Bigfoot. She is the author and illustrator of a number of books for children, including Small Saul and the Adventures of Binky the Space Cat. She was the recipient of the 2011 Silver Birch Express Award and the 2011 Hackmatack Award for Binky the Space Cat and was shortlisted for a Joe Shuster Comics for Kids Award and an Eisner Award for Binky Under Pressure. Ashley currently lives in British Columbia.

Ashley Spires grew up in the Pacific Northwest, the supposed stomping grounds of Bigfoot. She is the author and illustrator of a number of books for children, including Small Saul and the Adventures of Binky the Space Cat. She was the recipient of the 2011 Silver Birch Express Award and the 2011 Hackmatack Award for Binky the Space Cat and was shortlisted for a Joe Shuster Comics for Kids Award and an Eisner Award for Binky Under Pressure. Ashley currently lives in British Columbia.

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